Trains.com
Subscribe

Fall 2024

The Fall 2024 issue of Classic Toy Trains

SubscribeBuy this Issue

Featured

In this Issue

Welcome to Firecrown Media

By Craig Fuller

Trees give a layout personality

Tips for making your own trees

CNJ runs deep in this modeler’s blood

Tom Kaiser celebrates his family’s railroad in O gauge

Build a diorama

Try a smaller scale project instead of a full layout

How did that one get away?

Missing out on a unique Lionel No. 151 Semaphore

Make your layout accessible to everyone!

8 smart ways to accommodate less mobile modelers and visitors

Get a lift

Add a lift-out section to your layout for easy access

How to detail a Lionel tank car

It’s easy to create the No. 2465 Lionel intended to build

Inspiration for all ages

O gauge layout with much to teach

Fun with the Frosty Bar

Create unique structures using Plasticville parts

Spotlight on the Penn Central at Lionel

Modern-era rolling stock honored a recent merger

Green, red, or gray for the 631

Introducing American Flyer’s first postwar gondolas

Disappearing mountain layout

A new take on an old favorite

MTH Premier Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 2926

How a recent addition immediately became a favorite

Also in this issue:

EDITOR’S DESK, pg. 4

YOUR LETTERS, pg. 6

YOUR PHOTOS, pg. 8

NEWS & REVIEWS, pg. 13

  • Lionel SD50, LCCA boxcar, Menards cattle car, Atlas E8, and more

COLLECTIBLE CLASSICS, pg. 17

  • Lionel’s No. 3484 Operating Boxcar

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, pg. 56

  • Poultry Dispatch Car repair, Marx boxcar paint scheme, and more

AD INDEX, pg. 65

TIPS & TRICKS, pg. 66

  • An easy fix for broken Marx plastic couplers